This is the journal of a young New Yorker of good family who signed on as a clerk with John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, incorporated in 1808, at a time when the Pacific Northwest was still disp
When Jo Jeffers was a young girl suffering from asthma, she promised herself, "When I grow up, if I ever do, I shall go to Arizona and be a cowboy." She did both, and Ranch Wife tells the story of her
Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergenc
This marvelously evocative book by Stephen Johnson, Gerald Haslam, and Robert Dawson--all natives of the Great Central Valley of California--is the first to explore in detail the rich natural and soci
In this remarkable book, James Barker follows the Yup’ik Eskimo of Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta through their year’s cycle, beginning with spring seal hunting and ending with the winter dancing that
Here is a convincing, often exhilarating vision of a new Latino culture that bubbles from San Salvador to L.A. and that embraces cumbia and hip-hop, anarchists and Catholic priests. The Other Side des
California is a contentious arena for the study of the Native American past. Some critics say genocide characterized the early conduct of Indian affairs in the state; others say humanitarian concerns.
Geary (English, Brigham Young U.) covers the human and a little natural history of the great, largely empty, and spectacular Utah section of the Colorado Plateau. Contains only one inadequate map. A g
A series of essays discussing the reasons for and the solutions to the rioting that took place in Los Angeles in 1992 and the violence that grew out of it in Atlanta. The contributors are some of the
Reprint of the 1982 original published by Howe Bros. on Brooks' memories of Mormon farm and ranch life around St. George, Utah in the early 20th century. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,
Reprint of the A.H. Clark edition of 1972 on the man and, largely, the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
In Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries…bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the be
"The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune
For four decades, John Randolph Haynes (1853-1937) was in the forefront of social-reform crusades and political action in Los Angeles and California, with his most important legacies in the fields of
The author turns his critical eye to the City of Angels, discussing L.A.'s gridlocked freeways, immigrant neighborhoods, posh Beverly Hills, popular culture, health consciousness, and more, and specul
The Hopi Indians of Arizona have long been portrayed in the anthropological literature as a sober, peaceful, and cooperative people with an egalitarian social organization. Hopi ideology itself encou
Helldorado offers cinematic images of wagon trains crossing the Great Plains, of Phoenix and Denver emerging from the dust and mud, of Tombstone blazing through a silver bonanza, and of the railroad j
